Eco-Translation: Translation and Ecology in the Age of the
Anthropocene, Routledge, 2017.
Ecology has become a central question governing the survival and
sustainability of human societies, cultures and languages. In this
timely study, Michael Cronin investigates how the perspective of the
Anthropocene, or the effect of humans on the global environment, has
profound implications for the way translation is considered in the past,
present and future. Starting with a deep history of translation and
ranging from food ecology to inter-species translation and green
translation technology, this thought-provoking book offers a challenging
and ultimately hopeful perspective on how translation can play a vital
role in the future survival of the planet.
See:
https://www.routledge.com/Eco-Translation-Translation-and-Ecology-in-the-Age-of-the-Anthropocene/Cronin/p/book/9781138916845

Translation in the Digital Age
Translation is living through a period of revolutionary upheaval. The effects of
digital technology and the internet on translation are continuous, widespread
and profound. From automatic online translation services to the rise of
crowdsourced translation and the proliferation of translation Apps for
smartphones, the translation revolution is everywhere. The implications for
human languages, cultures and society of this revolution are radical and
far-reaching. In the Information Age that is the Translation Age, new ways of
talking and thinking about translation which take full account of the dramatic
changes in the digital sphere are urgently required.

Michael Cronin examines the role of translation with regard to the debates
around emerging digital technologies and analyses their social, cultural and
political consequences, guiding readers through the beginnings of translation's
engagement with technology, and through to the key issues that exist today.

With links to many areas of study, Translation in the Digital Age is a vital
read for students of modern languages, translation studies, cultural studies and
applied linguistics.

The translation will be launched at a special event in the Jagiellonian
University in Kraków in early May 2017.

Amazon book description
Are we really living in a shrinking world? Is it true that diversity is on the
decline everywhere? Are we condemned to live on a planet without difference or
hope? The Expanding World challenges the basic notion of a shrinking world in
current debates around globalization and argues that it informs ways of thinking
and doing which are deeply damaging to the emergence of a progressive politics.
The work proposes instead a new kind of politics based on a notion of an
expanding rather than a shrinking world. This implies a different way of looking
at the world and a different way of doing politics. The Expanding World is
fundamentally about looking more closely at what is around us and acting on that
knowledge. It is about considering what it means to have whole worlds reflected
in the looking glass of local inquiry. Cronin challenges the prevailing culture
of disenchantment by highlighting the inexhaustible variety and richness of the
planet and how that variety and richness can become the basis of new forms of
emancipatory politics.

Amazon book descriptionThis is the first sustained and broad-ranging critique of the legacies of
Ireland's Celtic Tiger boom. Contributors identify the damaging impact that the
free market has had on a wide range of areas in public life, including the media
and the pharmaceutical industry, and also examine its influence on health,
education, state surveillance, immigrants, the welfare state, consumerism and
the Irish language. Challenging the notion that there is no alternative for
Ireland but the present economic and political dispensation, experts map out an
alternative politics that could create spaces for hope and renewal in
contemporary Ireland. In a society whose public debates have been largely
dominated by the instrumentalist logic of stockbroker economists and the
regressive populism of talk-radio shock jocks, Transforming Ireland offers a
more substantial and considered analysis, uncovering hidden aspects of everyday
Irish life. It reveals that, virtually unnoticed by the media, there exist
lively debates in today's Ireland which draw on international insights about
globalisation to probe how it is reshaping Irish society. Covering four
principal topics - culture and society, media and social change, social control,
and power and politics - this impressive volume opens new and hopeful
perspectives for students and also the general reader. Though primarily a book
about Ireland, it is also a book about today's form of globalisation, offering a
rare and accessible analysis of the damage done to society when market forces
are given free rein.
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Amazon book descriptionTranslation and Globalization is essential reading for anyone with an
interest in translation, or a concern for the future of our world's languages
and cultures. This is a critical exploration of the ways in which radical
changes to the world economy have affected contemporary translation.
The Internet, new technology, machine translation and the emergence of a
worldwide, multi-million dollar translation industry have dramatically altered
the complex relationship between translators, language and power. In this book,
Michael Cronin looks at the changing geography of translation practice and
offers new ways of understanding the role of the translator in globalized
societies and economies. Drawing on examples and case-studies from Europe,
Africa, Asia, and the Americas, the author argues that translation is central to
debates about language and cultural identity, and shows why consideration of the
role of translation and translators is a necessary part of safeguarding and
promoting linguistic and cultural diversity.
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Michael Cronin looks at how translation has played a crucial role in
shaping debates about identity, language and cultural survival in
the past and in the present. He explores how everything from the
impact of migration on the curricula for national literature
courses, to the way in which nations wage war in the modern era is
bound up with urgent questions of translation and identity.
Examining translation practices and experiences across continents to
show how translation is an integral part of how cultures are
evolving, the volume presents new perspectives on how translation
can be a powerful tool in enhancing difference and promoting
intercultural dialogue.
Drawing on a wide range of materials from official government
reports to Shakespearean drama and Hollywood films, Cronin
demonstrates how translation is central to any proper understanding
of how cultural identity has emerged in human history, and suggests
an innovative and positive vision of how translation can be used to
deal with one of the most salient issues in an increasingly
borderless world.
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The publication of "The Commitments", "The Snapper" and "The Van" signalled the
emergence of a significant new voice in Irish fiction. This book traces the
genesis and impact of the change in Ireland's fortunes on the work of Doyle,
Parker and Frears and shows how the increasing de-differentiation of boundaries
between economy and culture meant that a body of literary and cinematographic
work like the Trilogy was as much a contributory factor to the contemporary
transformation of Ireland as a reflection of it.
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This highly accessible introduction to translation theory, written by a leading
author in the field, uses the genre of film to bring the main themes in
translation to life. Through analyzing films as diverse as the Marx Brothers’
A Night at the Opera, The Star Wars Trilogies and Lost in
Translation, the reader is encouraged to think about both issues and
problems of translation as they are played out on the screen and issues of
filmic representation through examining the translation dimension of specific
films. In highlighting how translation has featured in both mainstream
commercial and arthouse films over the years, Cronin shows how translation has
been a concern of filmmakers dealing with questions of culture, identity,
conflict and representation. This book is a lively and accessible text for
translation theory courses and offers a new and largely unexplored approach to
topics of identity and representation on screen. Translation Goes to the
Movies will be of interest to those on translation studies and film studies
courses.
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